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The Declining GURU-DAKSHINA

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Yet another bitter truth of our life is being portraited here under the title of this blog' Declining GURU-DAKSHINA ' for those who don't know the meaning of GURU-DAKSHINA, its a Sanskrit  derived term given to any donation,fees or honorarium given to the GURU as a way of thanking him or her for lending his or her knowledge and restructuring and making one a better person. As usual, this blog would stand incomplete without the example of Eklavya and Dhronacharya's Example..wherein GURU DAKSHINA Eklavya had to give his right thumb. Going a bit offtopic for the reason to give my viewers a reason which remains unanswered to many, but according to my study from various books, I had come to know the reason why?? In this incident, people blame Dhronacharya for being narcissistic but it's not true The only reason behind him asking Eklavya to do so was that in those time it was a crime which would have been committed by Droan as Eklavya had gained all the knowledge or vidy